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Garda Helicopter over Tyrrelstown

  • 11-05-2018 11:41PM
    #1
    Bigmac1euro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭


    Garda helicopter over Tyrrelstown the last hour.
    Anyone any ideas what it’s about ?


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  • #2
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,707 ✭✭✭stimpson


    steo_magra wrote: »
    Garda helicopter over Tyrrelstown the last hour.
    Anyone any ideas what it’s about ?

    It’s about 200 feet.


  • #3
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,645 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    They using that annoying spotlight while hovering very low?

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #4
    how.gareth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭how.gareth


    steo_magra wrote: »
    Garda helicopter over Tyrrelstown the last hour.
    Anyone any ideas what it’s about ?

    Probably searching for some boyz n the hood innit


  • #5
    Bigmac1euro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭Bigmac1euro


    They’re hovering over the apartments here for the last hour. It’s ridiculously loud. I’m surprised it hasn’t ran out of petrol


  • #6
    Bigmac1euro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭Bigmac1euro


    stimpson wrote: »
    It’s about 200 feet.

    its not a 747 kid


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  • #7
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    The squirrel.thats the official name of the garda chopper.fact


  • #8
    kildare lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭kildare lad


    All the feral black youths causing some mischief again


  • #9
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    steo_magra wrote: »
    They’re hovering over the apartments here for the last hour. It’s ridiculously loud. I’m surprised it hasn’t ran out of petrol


    It wont run out of petrol. They run on Kerosene. That is why they are called paraffin budgies.


  • #10
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    The squirrel.thats the official name of the garda chopper.fact

    Eehh.. try Alpha Sierra 1
    As1= aerial support 1


  • #11
    Jimmy Dags
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 172 ✭✭Jimmy Dags


    Perving on women showering.


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  • #12
    Jimmy Dags
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 172 ✭✭Jimmy Dags


    mikeecho wrote: »
    Eehh.. try Alpha Sierra 1
    As1= aerial support 1

    Alpha dalpha wappa


  • #13
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I was going to say perving too


  • #14
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Is that unusual? It's over my place most nights of the week. Spent an hour overhead last night after midnight. No reports of any incidents. I can hear it in the distance now but I'm nowhere near Tyrellstown.


  • #15
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    mikeecho wrote: »
    Eehh.. try Alpha Sierra 1
    As1= aerial support 1

    No it’s definitely called the squirrel.google it.i seen her on the ground too and it has the squirrel pinstriped on the belly


  • #16
    Jimmy Dags
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 172 ✭✭Jimmy Dags


    Landen Flabby Strictness wrote: »
    Is that unusual? It's over my place most nights of the week. Spent an hour overhead last night after midnight. No reports of any incidents. I can hear it in the distance now but I'm nowhere near Tyrellstown.

    Did you shower last night after midnight?


  • #17
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,177 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    kildare lad wrote: »
    All the feral black youths causing some mischief again

    I believe the plural is "yoof".


  • #18
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    No it’s definitely called the squirrel.google it.i seen her on the ground too and it has the squirrel pinstriped on the belly


    Its nickname is the squirrel. Its call-sign on the radio is different.


  • #19
    ANDREWMUFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 484 ✭✭ANDREWMUFC


    Cultural enrichment.


  • #20
    mattser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭mattser


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    I was going to say perving too

    That, my friends, is what qualifies one for a mod on boards. Stay classless.


  • #21
    macgowan89
    Site Banned Posts: 10 ✭macgowan89


    cue the alt-right using this as an aecuse to rasicm against refugees from nigeria


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  • #22
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    kildare lad wrote: »
    All the feral black youths causing some mischief again

    They iz called Youngers, Blud.


  • #23
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    macgowan89 wrote: »
    cue the alt-right using this as an aecuse to rasicm against refugees from nigeria


    Migrants not refugees.


  • #24
    macgowan89
    Site Banned Posts: 10 ✭macgowan89


    prinzeugen wrote: »
    Migrants not refugees.
    as long as they stay up in Dublin i don't care


  • #25
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,976 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Probably something to do with heroin.


  • #26
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Probably something to do with heroin.


    Or a Hereon. I know DFB/Garda do great work but they should post more about what is happening to us not RSPCA rescues.


    Going to get bird for this??:D


  • #27
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    prinzeugen wrote: »
    Its nickname is the squirrel. Its call-sign on the radio is different.

    It’s namename is squirrel. Or, at least it was till 2008. A Eurocopter Squirrel, to be pedantically precise. Well, to be even more pedantically precise, a Eurocopter (Airbus) AS350 Écureuil.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_AS350_%C3%89cureuil


  • #28
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    mattser wrote: »
    That, my friends, is what qualifies one for a mod on boards. Stay classless.

    Wow aren't you a string of sunshine.


  • #29
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Get used to it OP. With all the drug dealing, mma fighting, joy riding, murdering zombie thugs running around Dublin, it's going to be a regular occurence.


  • #30
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,457 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    macgowan89 wrote: »
    cue the alt-right using this as an aecuse to rasicm against refugees from nigeria

    Angola, ivory coast and Somalia pop popular


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  • #31
    Sponge25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭Sponge25


    It was over my house a few months ago, I couldn't believe how loud it was. I've seen harriers and F16s etc at Baldonal airshow but this helicopter was just as loud, was so low it was shaking my house.


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